Our Soldier

His wins tell an encouraging tale. The first came at Wexford on 17 May 2025, and then nearly a year and a half later—a long drought—he broke through again at Bellewstown on 5 July 2025. Both victories came on normal, standard ground, and that is where his statistics really catch the eye: he has won two of his six races on normal conditions, a 33 percent win rate that towers above his overall record. This is the kind of pattern that matters. It suggests that when the track suits him and the race fits, Our Soldier is genuinely competitive. The stretch without a win between those two victories is hard to swallow, but his two wins in his last six outings show he has not lost his edge.

Denis Gerard Hogan, training from Cloughjordan in County Tipperary, has sent out 54 winners this season from a busy yard. Our Soldier remains very much active—he raced just a day ago—and at seven years old he is in the prime years where many horses deliver their best performances. If his team can find him races on ground that plays to his strengths, he remains a horse capable of stringing together better sequences than the scattered form of recent years suggests.